Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Fred Schmidt 2014 Director $0 $0 VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK INC
Al Ames 2014 Past President $0 $0 VERMONT FEED DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
Rosemarie Smith 2013 Member $0 $0 FAMILY GARDEN
Sharon Poddick 2014 President $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Kristi Edwards 2014 Director (Public Relations) $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Dave Bogdan 2014 Trustee $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Phil Lovely 2015 Former Director $0 $0 WONDER & WISDOM INC
Adam Cohen 2016 Board Member $0 $0 YESTERMORROW INC
Len Cadwallader 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Catherine Smith Hybels 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Gregory Prince Phd 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Anne Silberfarb 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Jennifer Rost 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC
Martin Scanlon 2016 Recording Secretary $0 $0 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Richard Dayton 2014 Board Member $0 $0 HOMELESS PREVENTION CENTER
Chad T Ahern 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Theresa Alberghini Dipalma 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Donna Burke 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Marilyn Cormier 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Sandra Dalton Felis 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Pamela Mackenzie 2014 Vice Chair $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Amy Mailloux 2014 Trustee $0 $0 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
Dan Brush 2014 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Leonine Public Affairs Llp 2016 Contract Svcs $0 $0 VERMONT WHOLESALE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION
Gail Ostrout 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $0 $0 PASSUMPSIC VIEW INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.